The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Dennis Ritchie
- The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
- UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
- Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
- A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do.
- C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
- with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
- Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.
- C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.
- I’m just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
- At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011) was an American computer scientist who significantly shaped the world of computing. He is best known for creating the C programming language, one of the most influential languages in software development, and for his key role in developing the Unix operating system.
Ritchie’s work in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Bell Labs, alongside Ken Thompson, laid the foundation for much of modern computing infrastructure.
The C language provided flexibility, efficiency, and portability, making it widely adopted for system and application software. Unix, similarly, became the bedrock of many operating systems, including Linux and macOS, influencing software development on a global scale.
Ritchie’s contributions earned him several prestigious awards, including the Turing Award in 1983. Despite his groundbreaking work, he remained modest, influencing generations of programmers. His work continues to shape programming and operating systems today.
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